Man who had plea deal with prosecutors to talk about ties associated with organized crime was shot dead at Sao Paulo's international airport, the Associated Press reported, citing BTA, citing the police in the Brazilian metropolis.
Three people were injured yesterday by the armed attackers, who managed to escape.
The murdered man was identified as Antonio Vinicius Lopez Gritzbach. The man, who had a cryptocurrency business, had received death threats from the Capital First Command, a powerful international crime group.
German police announced that they had arrested a leader of left-wing extremists suspected of violence in the eastern state of Thuringia, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
He is believed to have led a group in Leipzig associated with an already convicted student known as Lina E. The man was detained at the initiative of the intelligence agency, which had been on his trail for some time.
German federal prosecutors and police in the state of Saxony said the man was suspected of involvement in several politically motivated physical attacks and membership of a criminal organization.
According to the available information, some of the victims suffered serious injuries.
The arrest warrant for the man, who has been absconding since the summer of 2020, is dated March 26, 2021. Police said they were “almost certain” that he was also involved in attacks on suspected far-right supporters in the Hungarian capital Budapest in February 2023.
In May 2023 The Higher District Court in Dresden convicted Lina E. to five years and three months in prison for several attacks on right-wing extremists. She was released after spending two and a half years in pre-trial detention.
The court handed down sentences ranging from two and a half years to three years and three months of imprisonment for the other three defendants in the case. The federal prosecutor's office accused them that in the period 2018-2020 have severely beaten far-right activists in East Germany, DPA notes.